Katja Iversen, President/CEO of Women Deliver, spoke with Melinda Gates, Co-Chair of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, on the importance of access to family planning for women's economic empowerment.
Katja Iversen: At Women Deliver, we firmly believe that girls’ and women’s ability to control their own fertility, and to decide if and when to have children and how many children to have, is...

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Type: Case Studies

An analysis of cohort records of 18,688 postabortion care clients in Tanzania
The family planning component of postabortion care (PAC) is critical, as it helps women to prevent unintended pregnancies and reduce future incidence of life-threatening unsafe abortion. In Tanzania, PAC was recently decentralized from tertiary-level district hospitals to primary health care dispensaries in four regions...

More people are displaced now than at any time since World War II. In 2018 alone, 34 million women and girls were displaced by natural disaster and conflict.
Family planning investments in emergencies are demonstrating impact. Sustained investments are needed. The global community must invest in programs, partnership, documentation and coordination to ensure that family planning is part of every...

This webinar was hosted by AVAC, Breakthrough ACTION, and FP2020 to discuss a new Country Roadmap that provides templates that countries can use before, during, and after the release of ECHO trial results. Presenters included a representative from the Kenya Ministry of Health who explained how the national Steering Committee is preparing in advance of the results and a member of the ECHO Global...